Mike Evans gets BIG Deal

[HailHydra]

Mike Evans agrees to five-year, $82.5M deal with Bucs

Screws up the "team-friendly" market for Cooks next year.

 

[WaterfallJumper]

That's just too much for a receiver. He's a promising young player with 4 straight 1,000 yard seasons, but that's just way too much money. Good grief.

 

[patsinthesnow]

There’s gone, then there’s Brandin Cooks in 2019 free agency gone. He’s not getting a $16 million dollar tag & he’s not getting 5 years $70 million here.

 

[Trycked]

I heard it was originally for 90M, but the guy dropped the pen when it was handed to him to sign the contract. Ba-dum-ching

 

[supafly]

Mike Evans is certainly deserving of a big extension. He’s one of the top 5 WRs in the game. I hope Cooks isn’t looking for 16m a year or he’s long gone. It would be nice to see something around 13m a year, but even then, I think they would be hesitant without seeing him here for one more year.

 

[PatriotsNumero1Fan]

It's too bad he has a crappy QB.

 

[Marqui]

Am I the only one that thinks Cooks has very little in common with Evans?

 

[HailHydra]

This could play into the idea of a Cooks trade similar to recent Belichickean moves - a guy's gonna get paid in free agency in the upcoming year, so you get something for him a year early. Honestly, I think it's inevitable that UNLESS Belichick loves Cooks on the team, that hes traded by the trade deadline

 

[HailHydra]

Am I the only one that thinks Cooks has very little in common with Evans?

Entirely different types of WRs, but they'll get similar money

 

[PatriotsNumero1Fan]

Entirely different types of WRs, but they'll get similar money

We hardly pay wrs big money. Cooks will be no different.

 

[maust]

$55m of it guaranteed smdh, there goes the WR market

 

[HailHydra]

We hardly pay wrs big money. Cooks will be no different.

I meant that they'll get similar money somewhere

 

[PatriotsNumero1Fan]

I meant that they'll get similar money somewhere

Yup but I wonder about our wrs. They're getting old. We have Mitchell but i wonder about him staying healthy.

 

[JMC00]

This could play into the idea of a Cooks trade similar to recent Belichickean moves - a guy's gonna get paid in free agency in the upcoming year, so you get something for him a year early. Honestly, I think it's inevitable that UNLESS Belichick loves Cooks on the team, that hes traded by the trade deadline

This take is absolute ****e. I mean a really big stinky pile of ****e.

There's a lot better chance Cooks signs a long term deal in the next week than there is of him getting traded by the trade deadline.

Belichick loves Cooks and fell in love with him during Pats/Saints scrimmages a couple of years ago.

Belichick in his entire career has only ever traded a 1st round pick once for a player and the player was Brandin Cooks.

 

[supafly]

Am I the only one that thinks Cooks has very little in common with Evans?

Each taken in the first round 4 yrs ago.

Evans = 4,600 yards and 32 TDs

Cooks = 4,100 yards and 28 TDs

Cooks isn’t the type of top 5 WR that Evans is, but he’s top 10.

 

[supafly]

Aside from the big guarantee, I’m not seeing how this is exactly “setting the market?”

Brown—17m
Hopkins—16+m
Landry—16.2m franchise tag
Evans—16+m

 

[maineman209]

That's just too much for a receiver. He's a promising young player with 4 straight 1,000 yard seasons, but that's just way too much money. Good grief.

Cap inflation + positional inflation.

 

[HailHydra]

This take is absolute ****e. I mean a really big stinky pile of ****e.

There's a lot better chance Cooks signs a long term deal in the next week than there is of him getting traded by the trade deadline.

Belichick loves Cooks and fell in love with him during Pats/Saints scrimmages a couple of years ago.

Belichick in his entire career has only ever traded a 1st round pick once for a player and the player was Brandin Cooks.

Not enough to pay him 16 mill, or even more.

 

[maust]

Belichick in his entire career has only ever traded a 1st round pick once for a player and the player was Brandin Cooks.

Belichick has also never paid a WR anywhere near top of the market money for more than one year, which he did on 2 separate occasions. Those 2 players were Moss & Welker, both of whom were gone the following year. Make of that what you will but I wouldn't discount it.

 

[Steve102]

This take is absolute ****e. I mean a really big stinky pile of ****e.

There's a lot better chance Cooks signs a long term deal in the next week than there is of him getting traded by the trade deadline.

Belichick loves Cooks and fell in love with him during Pats/Saints scrimmages a couple of years ago.

Belichick in his entire career has only ever traded a 1st round pick once for a player and the player was Brandin Cooks.

And? I can give you 82.5m reason why the original poster had a point. BB has never paid top of market to a WR long term. He will just bring in another guy, some scrap heap cast off no one wants.

Man, that's a chitload of money. Crazy. Wonder where that puts them, cap-wize?